Jack Sparrow is a legendary pirate of the Seven Seas, and the trickster of the Caribbean. A captain of equally dubious morality and sobriety, a master of self-promotion and self-interest, Jack fought a constant, losing battle with his own best tendencies. Jack's first love was the sea, his second, his beloved ship the Black Pearl.

Jack has a love/hate relationship with his former first mate, Hector Barbossa. Barbossa led a mutiny against Jack, causing him to lose both his crew and his beloved Pearl. They were later forced into an uneasy alliance against Davy Jones after helped to rescue Jack from the depths of Davy Jones' Locker.

Jack is known to stretch the truth and outright lie to get what he wants. He supposedly escaped from his exile on the tropical island by strapping his feet to two sea turtles and surfing on them to the nearest port. Even his closest friends, of which he has few, know to take his word with a huge grain of salt.